hurricane nate at this 11 p.m. eastern hour at the moment as hurricane nate is barrelling toward the gulf coast, they're looking for a second landfall. it is 11 p.m. on the east coast but it's 10 p.m. central time or local time where hurricane nate is right now. we expect hurricane nate to make

a second landfall, as i was mentioning. we have a new report that has come in from noaa. nbc meteorologist bill karins is with us now. what did you learn from it? >> they said the northern eye wall was moving on shore. however strong nate is, we're going to find out in the next hour and a half. if we don't hear of really high winds or no recorded high winds in the next hour and a half, that's better news for everyone in alabama and north georgia that has to eventually go through the storm, too. still reporting 85 mile-per-hour winds. this graphic over here is the satellite view of the storm. i'm going to put on the current stats. this is the 11:00 advisory just in, says 85 mile-per-hour winds, a solid category one, it's moving to the north at 20 miles per hour, still moving pretty fast, 60 miles east of new orleans and about 30 miles south

every biloxi. i know we're focusing on the landfall, that's where the most monetary damage is going to be, that's where the people will have to deal with power outages for a couple days after this is done. this storm will eventually move further to the north. by sunday morning at 7 a.m., this storm is well inland, racing to the north, just to the east of meridian and safely to the west of montgomery. and by the time we get through sunday night, this storm is all the way up, less than 24 hours from now, the storm is going to be in between nashville and knoxville. then it's going to be weakened down after that just to a depression or a remnant low. then it's going to track south of pittsburgh, through pennsylvania with steady, heavy rains and even into areas of southern new england. here's a current marker of where the storm is located. it is just now south of gulf shores and just to the southwest of biloxi. you notice these wind airiarrow.

as it moves inland, that will start pushing the water back into the bays of mobile, pensacola. a little less there because the winds aren't as strong but especially near biloxi and pass gho ghopassagulos. this will show you clearly where the storm is located. you can see where new orleans is. by the way, the storm surge warning has been dropped for lake pontchartrain and all areas of louisiana. it's barely breezy. louisiana completely dodged nate and they're thankful for that. the storm itself has to make its landfall. about an hour and a half from now is whether we should have landfall, probably near the gulf

shores and biloxi. that's when we'll see the strongest wind with this storm here. that's kind of an update on what we're seeing. we always thought the surge would cause the most damage and unfortunately it's a nighttime storm. we're not going to put our reporters at the beach with the storm surge coming in so we're not going to have great pictures of the storm surge until the morning. >> so what we're not used to seeing today as we're watching nate is when we look at nate, it's kind of a half crescent. it's not a full circle, if you will. >> there's a lot of dry air that wrapped on the west side. that's what caused the new orleans area, all through louisiana. you are literally only going to be, ah, say 40 miles from the landfall of a hurricane in slidell, louisiana and it's not even raining. >> we'll take that. >> that's fine. very few power outages, too. it's mostly coastal mississippi

and overnight power outages in alabama. >> let's go stral to ight to al. nbc's kristen dahlgren is there. >> reporter: take a look behind me. you can see a couple of people out on the streets. that's the real concern for officials here. because the storm is coming at night and visibility is going to be low and we're expecting this storm surge that could be six to nine feet in mobile bay, officials say you really doesn't know what you're driving into. we saw that earlier when we were along that causeway, how quickly the water comes up. when we went to drive out of there, it was one, two, feet up our cars so that's where it could get very dangerous. you can't see just how deep the

water is. and if we'd gone any deeper than that in a lighter vehicle, we were in some pretty heavy vehicles, that might float a lighter vehicle. as bill was saying, we see the most deaths in a storm like this from the water and from, you know, the storm surge. many times it's people in cars who go into this water and then get swept away. and so that's really the danger of people being urged to stay off the streets at this point. there's no official curfew here in mobile. some other areas have decided to put a curfew into effect but officials say they are strongly, strongly urging people to be inside at this point. >> noaa saying one to two feet is enough to move a car so do not try to run through this stuff. you reported on katrina and you're there now in mobile, alabama for hurricane nate.

contextually, you've seen the arc of what a hurricane can do to this area. any reflections and perspectives? >> yeah, you know, they are very different storms, as all hurricanes are. and katrina made its landfall to the west of here, much like it appears nate is doing. i will tell you that during katrina, it was a slower moving storm and so we saw a longer period with the sort of storm surge being pushed ashore and coming into the streets here. i haven't seen anything that really resembles that yet. we could get to that in the next hour or two, three hours or so. from mobile, i actually went to gulfport, a town that we're mentioning a lot with nate. it got a lot of coverage but then was a little bit overshadowed and katrina after new orleans flooded. and gulfport along the coast there was absolutely wiped out. i saw just foundations from

large brick stone homes, a foundation was all that was left. that's how powerful the storm surge in katrina was and that was about an 18-foot storm surge in that storm. but that caught me just how powerful the water can be in these storms. and i've had such a respect for mother matie i nature after tha what a storm can do so we're all sure we're well away from where the water will be coming in quickly and so powerfully. a lot of those homes, the good news is homes, businesses along that route 90 there were rebuilt after katrina and so hopefully built to higher hurricane codes, built to higher standards and will be able to withstand whatever nate is going to bring in the next few hours. >> kristen, i'm showing the radar here while you're talking and have been talking.

you are in that heavier band and then we're going to get a break. i'm not concerned for the immediate mobile area for the next two hours. one thing we'll have to watch for mobile is the storm surge. high tide is 1:46 a.m. so we're not really going to know how mobile fared from this storm until wee get to that high tide cycle and find out just how high the water went. we have water gauges along the coast that will tell us. they're saying there's a possibility of a six-to-nine foot surge. you'll probably notice a change in direction in the next hour or two hours, and that's when the water will start surging and filling up. this is the mobile bay here. coming back further to the south here, just to update everyone where the storm is, it's just now south of the mississippi coastline. the thing we're going to be watching, if we're going to get

any significant wind damage out of this, category one, you can get roof damage and a lot of trees. this is what's left of that northern eye and this is now starting to move on shore. here's biloxi. that is only about 11 miles from biloxi and it's moving at 20 miles an hour. that's about 25, 30 minutes away. areas further down here towards we're talking about the pa pascogula area, that's around here. where kristen is located, i'm not very concerned with high winds where you are. the weather service is saying predicted highest wind gusts of 6 66 miles an hour in mobile. it could cause power o outages. >> reporter: and that's really good news for people here. bill, i know you're not as concerned with tornadoes at this

point, but i had a question about these and i'm learning as we go through every storm. i was hoping you could explain to people these are different than sort of the long track tornadoes that we might see in the spring in the south. they're not just coming in at night when it's dark and you can't really see what's going on outside so people aren't seeing it but it's also not coming for a long distance to their homes. these like seem to sort of drop from the sky quickly, do their damage and then move on. >> yeah, not like oklahoma. i believe in our control room, if you can find that tape, there were some that came onshore earlier during the daylight hours. this is one of them. it's one of those outer feeder bands. we call it a water spout because it's over water. if it was over land, it would be called a tornado. that's why we have a tornado watch for all areas and these

are capable of doing damage to rooftops or to trees. these are typically what we call ef-0s or fe motor vehicef-1s. they're very short lived. they're not the big tornadoes we talk about in may in oklahoma and texas and other places in the plains. no reported damage over land so far. still possible, though. >> kristen, thank you. stand by. i want to get over to kerry sanders who is in biloxi, mississippi. it seems like you're at the middle of a quiet in the middle of some fingers, if you will, of the storm. >> reporter: yeah, it sort of comes and goes here. very good chance we might have a strong wind blowing here any moment now. i guess what we're really waiting for is what bill is sort of calculating for us with all of his science and technology is

the arrival of what will be the true hurricane force winds here, which i guess, bill, go ahead and take a look at it and tell me i think we're talking about now probably if the storm is still moving at the speed it has been moving, probably in about 30 minutes i should start feeling it or less. >> i have to 10 to 12 miles from you. roughly about 30 flinminutes fr now. you are going to go through this intense rain that will start in about ten minutes it, will pick up, pick up and hit its crescendo in about 30 minutes, it will be with you for about ten minutes and that will probably be the end of the storm for you. >> you know, i'm not going to complain about that and i don't think anyone else will complain about the speed of that. i also don't want to give a false sense of hope that there won't be some sort of calamity that will develop for people in

their homes, and people who, even though there's a curfew, have decided to venture out of their homes. if you're watching us or listening to us on sirius xm, i want you to know i can walk right there to the door if things start picking up and i just don't feel comfortable out here. we're trying to balance this by showing what's going on and by the same token, not putting ourselves up in any sort of extreme danger and put ourselves in a way that we can tell the story but not become the story. >> i should clarify. when i say the storm is going to be pretty much overfor kerry, he's in a safe spot where trees candidate fall on his head. the rain will be over and it will be breezy. 40 mile-an-hour gusts could drop a tree limb and kill somebody so

might as well wait for day break. >> reporter: and don't forget that even after a storm comes through, limbs can be weakened and we have seen in the past in hurricanes where people are out afterwards and a limb that's weakened falls and sadly traps somebody or kills somebody. there's the dangers during the hurricane and there's also the dangers after the hurricane. so if you're thinking that you live in the area and once this passs through everything is fine, just take your time, especially not only with the weakened limbs on trees but also with the power outages. we have about 5,000 people in alabama without power. we know there's going to be power outages here. it comes with strong winds. it doesn't even have to be hurricane force winds. so people have a tendency to do things like start their generators and do what's called a back feed into the house but then when the power comes back on from the electric company, that can spark a fire. there's all types of things people need to take their time

with, not only during the hurricane but on the back end of it as well. >> we'll be watching it carefully there with you. thank you so much, kerry. >> ed rapoport is here along with bill karins. i can read the bullet points but is nate turning out what you thought it was going to be? >> more or less yes. i want to add a clarification. there still is a storm surge warning up to the coast of mississippi and the highest storm surge at the moment is being reported in that area. it's almost five feet at shell beach. so the risk has not left louisiana quite yet, but you're right, the greatest risk is going to be along the mississippi and alabama coast where the storm surge will be anywhere from six to nine,

perhaps ten feet. >> you saw the reporting from kerry sanders and kristen dahlgren, you saw the wins mods moving pretty much parallel to the kcoastline there. as we compare this to harvey, give our viewers a contextual understanding with nate, again thinking of harvey. >> very different storm. harvey did most of its damage from the rainfall, the storm stalled, dropped 40 upwards to 50 inches of rain and caused floodi flooding. in this case we have a fast-moving storm. the winds are coming mainly out of the east here. but once the band that we talked about passes, the winds will indeed come out of the south. that's what will drive the storm surge ashore and is always the case with hurricanes, that's our greatest threat along the coast. >> hey, ed.

bill karins here. we greatly appreciate all the hard work you guys have done over the last six weeks. it's been since '04/'05 since you guys went through something like this. the storm surge is probably one of the most confusing things for people. right now we're saying 6, 7. can you explain is that a forecast, is that the probability or best or worst case, can you walk people through that? >> what we're expecting in this area the maximum storm surge to be observed, that's the rise of the water, it will be the inundat i don't kn inundation. we know there was a reference earlier to katrina.

this is not nearly as strong of a storm as katrina where the speak surge was 28 feet. but it is high enough to be a risk to life for anyone out at the coast. >> ed rappaport at noaa, thank you. we're also talking politics this hour, the president trying to revive health care talks, this time with democrats.

the forecast is seven to 11 feet of storm surge in biloxi, mississippi. a big concern there as hurricane nate is about to hit landfall in

biloxi, mississippi. we're waiting for that wave of the hurricane to happen. we've been getting reports from kerry sanders as gusts hit the area and then it was calm for a moment. if you look at this picture moments ago, it would have been calm. joining us now by phone, the mayor of biloxi, mississippi, andrew gillich. mr. mayor, what do you know right now? >> right now i think we're at about a five or six foot storm surge. it's great to listen to your explanation as far as where the feeder bands were. there's a string of islands about 12 miles offshore that we're anticipating thatting about hit of wind and we're thankful that unlike katrina,

this is is moving very fast. so we prepared for a bad storm and hopefully we're going to skate through this without a tremendous amount of hurting for people and property. >> as you know, the national weather center saying the fastest moving ever through the gulf there. and so we're watching it keep up that speed, sir, as it moves towards you and then away from you. we're getting some reporting out of a neighboring city of yours, pa pasagoula, mississippi. how are the roads doing? >> everybody's batoned down the hatches and they're staying in place. biloxi is a peninsula so we're covered by water on three sides so it's important that those

folks took shelter that were in low-lying areas that were experienced bad things with high tides and different hurricanes in the past. so i'm real comfortable with our city and the whole team and the coastal mayors, we're in close touch as we go through this storm. so these storms, the old timers used to call september storms. well, this is a little bit unusual. this is an unusual storm. moved this fast and, you know, again with just a minimal amount of damage we hope. >> mayor, meteorologist bill karins here, just curious, what did you guys do for staffing with police and fire and how long did you tell people to stay inside until once the storm passes overnight to get an idea how much damage was done? >> well, once day breaks, i think folks will be coming out

naturally like it did with katrina when it died down. i think 9 a.m. we'll be ready for the assessment, the day-after action plan. that's what we're planning on as far as general directors and that sort of things. but if things pop up with regard to unexpected kinds of problems, we'll be in direct touch and ready to move. as you mentioned, water spouts and tornadic kind of issues could pop up and those are real things we're concerned with. >> mayor, what did your emergency manager tell you if you do get those 11 foot storm surge, how much damage would you expect with that? >> it's similar, we have hurricane georges in 1998 with about an eight-foot storm surge and there wasn't a tremendous amount of damage and subsequent

storms with the storm surge. it hit some low lying areas. katrina has brought a lot of upgraded building restrictions and plans and where people are locating houses. i think this is sort of a benchmark of those southern building standards that we've implemented over the last 12 years. so i'm just hoping for the best. and i think with the speed that it is moving and, you know, a few -- seems like a few hours ago it was at south pass and just started calculating the 20 miles an hour it was moving, we felt we touched the brink at about midnight, another couple of hours. but in looking at the radar, we may have an earlier, you know, finish to this thing. >> your second year as mayor there, sir. we thank you so much for what you're doing there, the mayor of biloxi, mississippi, andrew gilich. i was watching some of the live pictures that we're showing,

some flickering. and you are talking about we're now going to see potentially problems with electricity. it was on the right-hand side. who knows what was causing it. but this is what you were warning about a little bit earlier this evening. next for you, president trump reaching across the aisle again trying to strike a deal on health care. we'll have that. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. look how much coffee's in here? fresh coffee. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the coffee and not me? do you wear this every day? everyday. i'd never take it off. are you ready to say goodbye to it? go! go! ta da! a terrarium. that's it. we brewed the love, right guys? (all) yes.

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. back to hurricane nate in a bit. we're going to move to politics. president trump back at the white house now after attending a fund-raiser in north carolina. before leaving for the tar heel state, he spoke briefly with reporter, including he is hope to revival health care talks. peter alexander has that story for us. reporter: tonight president trump off to fund rse for republicans, calling on the democrat's top senator chuck schumer to revive health care talks. >> if we can do a one or two-year deal, you'll have block granting ultimately, which is what the republicans want.

>> reporter: this follows repeated failures to repeal and replace obamacare. many democrats remain skeptical of mr. trump's intentions arguing his administration sabotage being obamacare, yesterday rolling back a key requirement that employers provide free birth control coverage. still, it's not the president's first dance with democrats. >> chuck and nancy would like to see something happen and so do i. >> reporter: republican steve scalise explaining why. >> the president said if the republicans aren't going to be able to move an agenda, maybe i'll look around. >> another cryptic but ominous comment from president trump tweeting that years of diplomacy with north korea have failed, arguing on one thing will work. what is it? he just told me on the south lawn, you'll figure that out

pretty soon. and in terms of friction between secretary of state rex tillerson and president trump, he said sometimes we disagree on some things, sometimes i'd like him to be a little tougher. >> thanks bo s to both of you. donald trump saying i have reached out to chuck schumer and it seems like we might be able to do something on health care but the minority leader say, no, not really. >> in is kind of a classic negotiating tactic by president trump, where he lays out something that he really wants but he knows that to actually make a deal happen, you have to come together on a middle part. and so this is going to infuriate republicans that he's dealing with democrats again but i think schumer -- the reason

schumer's doing it is he wants to save the obamacare subsidies and the president wants a deal on health care in some fashion. it's going to take a long slog to get this lamar alexander and patty murray fix through congress. >> and when you look at the calculus that would have to be made equal, this president continually undercut his leadership has has been said and reported, and if he wants to bring along democrats, fine but the criticism is you also have to bring along key leadership on the republican side to get to that number 60. >> exactly. and frankly, he would have problems reaching either of those goals. looking at this from, say, the perspective of the democrats, and peter touched on this in his report, the trump administration has cut by 90% the budget for doing ads for health care.gov,

for the subsidies. excuse me, by 90%. they've cut the budget by 40% for the navigator. that is sabotaging, making it harder to get younger people in, making it harder to get underserved to participate in obamacare, in the affordable health care act. so democrats have to weigh that. and meanwhile, this whole question is what is trump's motivation here? is it because he just wants some sort of win and move on to tax reform we he has more interest in or is he trying to tweak and annoy mitch mcconnell? and i think the big worry for the gop is that, look, trump has a movement, he has the following but the problem is that trump, when he makes these end runs around the gop leadership, where does that leave them? which ever the way the political

chips fall, where does that leave them later? right now the gop base feels very disconnected. they feel disconnected from the traditional congressional leadership. >> and so do many women here, daniel. this on the development of the president on the friday making the move on birth control and releasing some of the obligations from businesses that was brought on by obamacare. you put that together with an all-time low in terms of approval for his presidency as we move into month number nine, right, in the 32% range. >> and i think this has all the fingerprints of vice president pence, who is very in touch with social conservatives and social conservatives have been really pushing for the federal government to relax these burdens, as they saw them, on employers providing insurance coverage for birth control. but i would note that a lot of big companies are not going to drop their birth control subsidies for insurance any time

soon. this is going to be only a few dozen major employers because i think employers see the need to attract employees and they don't want to just be cutting health insurance coverage. so democrats will raise a big hackel ever this but the real-world effects are unknown at this point. >> the president in his commentary, going back to peter alexander's reporting here, wishing himself secretary of state was a little bit tougher on north korea. and also saying that there have been 25 years of discussions with north korea, though if you were to listen to words from previous administrations, they would say, no, we did not have direct discussions with north korea and have not. >> right. i mean, it's very hard to read into that tweet in a substantive way, but it is by many ways you look at it alarming. first of all, it can be led as signaling some type of military or armed forces threat towards

north korea. again, we see the president undercutting his secretary of state. this secretary of state, mr. tillerson, is honestly in a very, you know, he is on thin ice. he doesn't have close ties with this president, unlike other people before him, unlike other people in the administration. he's been undercut publicly. in washington people are saying he's on the political equivalent of death row. there's all this chatter. he really has been a very low key, low-profile secretary of state. how long can this go on? it doesn't look good for secretary of state tillerson. it's very hard to read this as to pointing to nanything but instability in terms of north korea. >> you'll have to read political play books tomorrow. daniel lippman, glad to have you in studio. i know you normally are asleep at this time and have to get up

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we're still following breaking news. the hurricane one had your be cane expected to make landfall. bill, do we know any thoughts about with when that might happen? >> landfall is expected to be roulx about an hour from now, somewhere in that vicinity. we have two stories. one is the northern portion of the storm, the eye wall coming on shore, that's where the strongest winds are. we're not expecting big huge wind damage. the main story is what's going to happen in the next three hours with the storm surge. we're approaching high tide in many of these areas and getting

to landfall and that's when we think the storm surge will be at its highest. in biloxi right now we have about a three-foot surge. we're still waiting for the winds to go in the southerly direction. they were pretty much going east to west. now they're starting to shift a little bit from the southeast to the northwest. once they start going from south to north, that's when the water will quickly rise and biloxi, pascogoula, dolphin island and into mobile bay. that's the greatest concern when that happens over the next two to three hours. the storm surge, there's some pictures i'm watching for some the storm chasers. biloxi, the water is coming up into the bottom level of parking garages,s that what we'd expect. not too concerned with flooding

with this storm. let's go to the barrier islands down here. some of them have some vacation homes on them. the most populated one is this dauphines island here. once this band comes inland, that's when the strongest wind will be. if you're going to lose power, it's going to be with this band. it's only a category one. i say "only" because we dealt with such monster storms this year. category one will have tree damage, knock down a couple trees, minor roof damage. that can cause power lines to go down and a loss of power. we'll see how biloxi fares. we heard from the mayor, everyone still has power on. if we lose it, it will be in the next half hour to next 45 minutes and then it will clear out. once they go through the center of the storm, the winds will just be breezy on the back side of the storm. here are some of the current wind gusts. i think we have a picture of new orleans.

new orleans is on the weak side of the storm. they didn't get a lot of rain from this system, didn't get a lot of strong winds. right now winds are at 24 miles per hour. new orleans area south to louisiana coast is doing just fine. there is some high water from the mississippi river where it comes out here north wards up in eastern louisiana, some of that water piling up on the back side of the storm. notice we're only at 37 wind gusts in mobile. there's that gust in biloxi. this is the highest we've seen now, 56. once you start getting above 50, that's when you can start some tree limbs coming down. we're getting closer to the power outages. if they're going to get the strong gusts up to 100 miles per hour, it's going to be in the next hour, hour and a half. here's a graphic that shows you where the winds are. this is the tropical storm winds in yellow. it goes from areas from louisiana/mississippi border all the way over towards pensacola. the hurricane force winds are only in this little red. that's where they could see

hurricane force gusts. it's a small storm, it's not a big storm. we're not expecting widespread wind damage. the story to watch with how much damage to be done is the storm surge. seven to 11 feet, that's no joke compared to where the water is normally at the beach. >> the great thing that we have here, bill, are all these screens around us stocked full of information. i could not help but look at the one behind me in terms of the water high. >> we're going to start watching these. what we watch is the normal water levels is the blue line. the observe level is the red line. that's currently where it is. so that gauge right there, which i believe is towards bay st. louis is about three feet above where it should be. that means a three-foot storm surge. i'm going to watch those gauges. iffy get those 7 to 11 feet,

sometimes they're on piers or dock-type bridges. >> you were just on screen telling us about the wind, kerry, what are you seeing? >>. >> reporter: i've felt some that have required me to spread my stance here but nothing like the sort of gusts that we felt during hurricane irma when i was down on naples when the winds were in excess of 142 miles an hour. i got off the phone just a short time ago with lee smithson. he's from mim -- mema, the mississippi emergency management agency. so there have been no reports of

any death, no serious flooding reports have come in yet. we're still waiting for the full effects of the storm surge to come in. a storm surge that at least here in biloxi may equal about 11 feet. it just so happens where i am is 11 feet above sea level. so i'm not sure if we do see that 11 foot storm surge that we'll see anything here. it's all along u.s. 90, which is the main drag along the water here, along the beach that is really where we would likely see that water come over. i think you'll see the wind is picking up here. so it's coming. i know bill has been following this on the radar and sort of calculating it. i got to say, your schedule seem to be pretty much dead on as we're seeing how the weather is arriving as i set my watch to watch it all unfold. for residents in their home, i think the one thing that gives them a little bit of comfort is that the power is still holding up. there are no reports of major power outages through the area. so folks who are in their homes

when they have the power on can feel a little bit more comforted by just that power. once the power goes off, it can sometimes feel a little lonely and isolating inside a house, especially when you have what is going on here, which is a nighttime storm. one of the biggest concerns the governor had with this nighttime store was that it was going to be a category 1, that people might decide to get out in their cars and drive. with the storm surge, it's very hard to see where the water is. a car could go into the water, not realize how deep it is and drive into the water and next thing you have a swift water rescue, the fire department with their boats out will. we saw some of the firefighters out there today making sure their lines were coiled properly, making sure they had their life vests and rings to throw to people. that was them in preparation, hoping of course that nobody would actually need this during the ongoing aspects of the storm

here, guys. >>. >> you're right, bill karins getting timing pretty good. he might have a future in broadcasting. >> the next 30ments is the main event in biloxi. >> kerry sanders, thank you so much. we'll touch base with you in the next of course if you're with us here on msnbc, we continue to cover hurricane nate. bill karins with us as long as we're on air here as we watch hurricane nate. 10:50 local time. we still have more as we wait for landfall of that eye. stick with us. where you can compare multiple quote options online and choose what's right for you. woah. flo and jamie here to see hqx. flo and jamie request entry. slovakia. triceratops. tapioca. racquetball. staccato. me llamo jamie. pumpernickel. pudding. employee: hey, guys! home quote explorer. it's home insurance made easy. password was "hey guys."

it's home insurance made easy. with flavors you'll love.re like new savory grilled mediterranean shrimp. and new sweet and spicy nashville hot shrimp. plus our classics like garlic shrimp scampi. try as much as you want however you want 'em, but don't wait, it ends soon. hurricane nate, about to make landfall for the second time. and we're watching the eye because we expect it to happen in about the next hour or so. big concern right now as we watch the high winds hit many

cities there on the gulf coast. we're worried about biloxi. we're worried about mobile, pascagoula. also in our eyesight we've got many other cities. new orleans it appears they may have dodged a bullet right now. already getting some information. nbc news just speaking with alabama power. their spokesperson telling us that 3,000 customers are experiencing power outages in all the greater mobile area. they're saying it's also fewer outages than there were at 9:30 p.m. eastern on saturday. the state they're saying had been dry for the past couple weeks so there's not a lot of muddy saturated ground. that is also good. which would make it more likely that power lines could go down. however, the outer bands of the storm have started to come through. no big sustained winds. they have crews on standby. bill karins still with us. you're telling to us look out

for this about two hours ago, the concern about, again, trees falling because of winds. also the power outages would be there but not sustained for weeks. >> yeah, you're going to get minor wind damage. that's what you expect in a category 1 hurricane. yes, some trees, some that are weaker that were going to fall sooner or later will come down. still the leaves on all the trees. and also adds a little bit to the damage that will be done. but it will mostly be tree damage. not a lot of structural damage from a category 1 storm. you have to point out we now are watching this northern eye coming on shore. i can zoom in here. we can start to talk about what areas we're most concerned with as far as the highest winds. we're not going to see winds in here that are going to be, you know, like what we saw with irma or maria or anything like that. these winds are more in the range of probably gusts between 70 and 90 miles per hour. here's pascagoulpascagoula. here's biloxi. this bright red will bring with

it the strongest winds we've seen with the storm. we haven't heard of a lot of power outages up to this point. this will be the first real strong bands. and if we're going to get those power outages, it's with this band as it's now shifting on shore. now beginning to arrive in biloxi and pascagoula and everywhere in between. it will move up the i-10 shortly. once you get done with this heavy band and the strong winds there's nothing much behind it. the winds die off pretty quickly on the back side. we'll continue to monitor with our strongest wind gusts. these are the current gusts. really nothing that's going to cause any problems whatsoever. but now we're -- biloxi was up to 54. now we're at 46, richard. so we'll wait and see. that strongest band is coming on shore. i hope we don't see any strong winds with it. i hope that maybe the winds aren't going down to the surface. but we'll find out shortly. >> you talked about biloxi and that beautiful bay. we're going to talk to the mayor. stick around with us here on msnbc. hurricane nate. we'll have more coverage for you coming up. we'll go straight to the mayor as i was mentioning there of mobile, alabama. that's the concern right now. storm surge in that city. this is biloxi, mississippi. we'll go there too. stick around.

very good evening to you. i'm richard lui live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. just a little past midnight on the east coast as we await now hurricane nate's second landfall. it's the one that so many people are worried about because it is going to be a larger portion of the mainland, if you will. the first coming about four hours ago. and was not nearly as powerful as we expected the second one to be. nate a category 1 hurricane right now but it could still bring a storm surge for up to 11 feet for parts of mississippi. alabama power reporting that fewer than 3,000 customers are without power in the mobile area. president trub already approved disaster declarations for mississippi and louisiana. we'll cover the impact of hurricane nate as it pounds the coast with heavy winds and rains. meteorologist bill karins joins us. we just got the latest from